Riley Young Morse
@youngmorse.bsky.social
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Riley Young Morse
@youngmorse.bsky.social
· Feb 15
To all affected, I'm terribly sorry. There is no way, we, as a society, can make it up to you.
We are in a sudden & long-term disaster. Disaster responders have experience slowing down time, looking at options, & limiting bad outcomes. We all need to start thinking like a responder right now. 1/
We are in a sudden & long-term disaster. Disaster responders have experience slowing down time, looking at options, & limiting bad outcomes. We all need to start thinking like a responder right now. 1/
A very good 🧵 🫶👇
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Left it all on the pitch. Our inaugural season comes to an end, but what a gift it has been. With all our love, thank you for a year none of us will ever forget. Up the Hearts ♥️
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Left it all on the pitch. Our inaugural season comes to an end, but what a gift it has been. With all our love, thank you for a year none of us will ever forget. Up the Hearts ♥️
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NEW: Hurricane forecasters at NOAA are getting a one-month reprieve before crucial satellite data is cut off by the Defense Dept. Delay is due to NOAA, NASA pushback because of the potential forecasting ramifications. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/w...
Trump admin will cut hurricane forecasters out of key satellite data in one month | CNN
The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.
edition.cnn.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
NEW: Hurricane forecasters at NOAA are getting a one-month reprieve before crucial satellite data is cut off by the Defense Dept. Delay is due to NOAA, NASA pushback because of the potential forecasting ramifications. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/w...
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The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
June 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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Scientists fight back: U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers. Through 2 grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
www.science.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Scientists fight back: U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers. Through 2 grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country www.science.org/content/arti...
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Very sad to see so much science funding being cut in the United States. I was one of the researchers who lost my job due to these cuts, and I personally know many others as well.
theconversation.com/most-america...
theconversation.com/most-america...
Most Americans believe misinformation is a problem — federal research cuts will only make the problem worse
The Trump administration canceled hundreds of grants it said amounted to federal censorship, implying that those conducting misinformation research are enemies of the First Amendment. This isn’t true.
theconversation.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very sad to see so much science funding being cut in the United States. I was one of the researchers who lost my job due to these cuts, and I personally know many others as well.
theconversation.com/most-america...
theconversation.com/most-america...
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If you've never heard of marine heat waves, now is the time to pay attention.
Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If you've never heard of marine heat waves, now is the time to pay attention.
Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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For the more than 55,000 federal workers who call MD-08 home, I’ve introduced an amendment demanding that the essential public servants at NOAA and HHS and elsewhere get back to work.
Will the GOP allow a vote? Or continue to let DOGE sack America’s federal workers?
Will the GOP allow a vote? Or continue to let DOGE sack America’s federal workers?
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
For the more than 55,000 federal workers who call MD-08 home, I’ve introduced an amendment demanding that the essential public servants at NOAA and HHS and elsewhere get back to work.
Will the GOP allow a vote? Or continue to let DOGE sack America’s federal workers?
Will the GOP allow a vote? Or continue to let DOGE sack America’s federal workers?
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More evidence that recent cuts to health, science and climate don't reflect what voters want:
New @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social research finds 75% of registered US voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
Read more:
New @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social research finds 75% of registered US voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
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A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming
55% said federal agencies should do more to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
climatecommunication.yale.edu
May 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
More evidence that recent cuts to health, science and climate don't reflect what voters want:
New @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social research finds 75% of registered US voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
Read more:
New @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social research finds 75% of registered US voters want federal agencies to maintain or increase efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
Read more:
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The U.S. Defense Department has recognized climate change as a national security threat for decades. Ignoring climate change is putting national security at risk.
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
- Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The U.S. Defense Department has recognized climate change as a national security threat for decades. Ignoring climate change is putting national security at risk.
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Get mad, scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
Opinion | 13 Ways to Save Health and Science
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Get mad, scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
May 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
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I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
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LISTEN TO ME. *NOW* IS THE TIME TO CALL YOUR REP AND SENATORS. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, OR WHERE IN THE US YOU LIVE. I'M HERE BEGGING YOU.
#SaveNSF
Here are your talking points:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
#SaveNSF
Here are your talking points:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-science.house.gov
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
LISTEN TO ME. *NOW* IS THE TIME TO CALL YOUR REP AND SENATORS. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, OR WHERE IN THE US YOU LIVE. I'M HERE BEGGING YOU.
#SaveNSF
Here are your talking points:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
#SaveNSF
Here are your talking points:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Here are some talking points for your signs, your calls, your messaging:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-science.house.gov
May 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Here are some talking points for your signs, your calls, your messaging:
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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We need you--every single one of you-- in the US to stand up, right now, and fight for NSF, NIH, USGS, NASA, USDA. Agencies Congress empowered to serve the public with impactful science and innovation. This is not a drill. This is our last stand. After this, there will be nothing left to fight for.
May 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We need you--every single one of you-- in the US to stand up, right now, and fight for NSF, NIH, USGS, NASA, USDA. Agencies Congress empowered to serve the public with impactful science and innovation. This is not a drill. This is our last stand. After this, there will be nothing left to fight for.
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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
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Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...